Umbrella-stick.



No. 790,642., I v PATENTED MAY 23, 1905'.

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UMBRELLA STICK.

APP'LIOATION FILED SI IPT. 27. 1904 15 7% .mw w 7 E'Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT CEEICE.

EDWARD C. KUHN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

UMBRELLA-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,642, dated May 23, 1905. Application filed fleptember 27, 1904-. Serial No. 226,221.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD C. KUI-IN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resitening of this general character of a simple and inexpensive nature and of a strong and compact construction by means of which a handle may be securely held in positionwhile being adapted for ready detachment when desired.

The invention consists in certain novel fe'atures of the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the improved fastening whereby certainimportant advantages are attained and the device is made simpler,cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure l is a perspective' view showing the employment of my improved fastening in connection with an umbrella-handle to hold the same detachably to the umbrella-stick. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing, detached, the members or elements of the fastening which in practice are carried by the handle. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing an end portion of the umbrellastick for illustration of the fastening members or elements carried thereby. ,Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken axially through the portion of the handle adjacent to the stick and showing my improved fastening applied thereto. Fig. 5 is a partial view showing the sleeve or casing member of the fastening. Fig. 6 1s a sectional v1ew taken transversely through the fastening in the plane indicated by line a a in Fig. 4.

- In the views, 1 indicates the handle, and 2 the stick or'rod, of the umbrella on which said handle is secured. Within the shank or stem portion of the handle 1 is produced an axial bore or opening 3 of a diameter adapted to receive the cylindrical tubular sleeve or casing member 4 of the fastening.

5 indicates a wooden plug of a diameter adapted to fit snugly within the bore or opening 3 of the handle and having a reduced por- 'tion 6, which fits and is cemented in the open end of the sleeve or casing member I. When the member 4:, carrying the plug 5, is to be inserted in the bore 3 of the handle, a coating of cement or glue will be applied over said member and its plug, so as to hold the parts securely together when set.

The casing member or sleeve 4 has adjacent to that endopposite to the plug 5 a circumfer ential outwardly-directed flange or enlargement 7, herein shown as produced by swaging the metal of which the sleeve or casing member is produced, and the proportions of the parts are such thatwhen the sleeve or casing member is inserted in the bore or opening 3 of the handle, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4:, said flange or enlargement 7 will abut against the end surface of the handle. Beyond the flange or enlargement 7 the sleeve or casing member A is extended to produce a cylindrical bearing 8, which projects from the end of the handle when the parts are assembled, and the extremity of the sleeve or member 4 at the end of the bearing 8 is provided with another outwardly-directed circumferential flange 9, which is also shown herein as formed by swaging the material of which the sleeve or member is made.

In one side of the bearing 8 is produced a longitudinal slot or channel 10, which is extended through the bead or flange 9 at the extremity of the casing member 4:, said slot or channel being, as shownin Fig. 5, openended, so as to'be adapted to receive a pin or projection 11, carried upon the stick or rod 2 when the end of the stick or rod is pushed within the sleeve or casing member A of the fastening. The extremity of the stick or rod 2 is cut away at one side, so as to produce thereon a shoulderedv segmental portion 14:, which when the end of the stick or rod is inserted within the sleeve or casing 4 is adapted for reciprocal engagement upon a correspondingly-shouldered segmental projection 13,produced upon a plug 12, rigidly held within the bore of sleeve member L in such a way as to hold the stick or rod against turning movement relatively to the handle, whereby the strains which would be otherwise exerted upon the pin or stud 11 in resisting such turning movement, which strains would be very liable to break or bend said pin or stud and damage the walls of the slot or channel 10, are caused to be received upon the shouldered reciprocal engaging parts 13 and 14L of the locking-block 12 and stick or rod 2, respectively.

15 indicates an annular fastening member or ring surrounding and held to turn upon the bearing 8 of the sleeve or casin'g member 4 between the beads or flanges? and 9, which serve to hold said ring 15 against movement endwise along the sleeve or casing, and in the member or ring 15 is provided an angular guide-channel comprising a portion 16, which is extended longitudinally of said ring or member from the end thereof which adjoins the bead or flange 9 to about the center of the length of said ring or member and is adapted when said ring or member is turned to coincide with and stand in alinement outside of the longitudinal slot or channel 10 of bearing 8 in such away as to permit the extremity of pin or stud 11, which, as seen in Fig. 6, protrudes beyond the outer surface of bearing 8, to traverse said longitudinally-extended arm or portion 16 of the guide-channel.

At the central part of the ring or member 15 the arm or portion 16 of the guide-channel communicates with another portion or angular arm 17 thereof, which, as shown on the drawings, is extended cireumferentially part way around the ring or member 15 and is adapted after the rod or stick 2 has been inserted in the sleeve or casing member 4 and when said ring or member 15 is turned to receive and be engaged by the protruding extremity of pin or stud 11, the longitudinal portion or arm 16 of the channel being by the turning of the ring or member moved out of alinement with the slot 10 of bearing 8, so that the pin 11 will be securely held in the circumferential arm 17 of said channel, and the rod or stick 2 Will be locked fast to the handle. By a reverse movement it will be evident that the longitudinal portion 16 of the guide-channel may be again brought into alinement with the slot 10 and with the pin 11, so that the rod or stick may be detached from the handle.

The improved fastening constructed as above described is of an extremely simple and inexpensive nature and is especiallywell adapted for use in connection with umbrellas where it is desired to employ detachable handles in order that the buyer of an umbrella may select a handle therefor in accordance with his tastes and Wishes irrespective of the remaining portion of the umbrella. Furthermore,

it will be evident that the fastening, although permitting of quickly and conveniently securing the handle to an umbrella stick or rod and of securely holding it in position thereon, is also capable of ready manipulation to unlock the handle, so that the device maybe fitted to and removed from the rods or sticks of various umbrellas to permit the buyer to more fully satisfy himself. In case the ring member 15 wears loose upon its bearing 8 it is evident that this may be easily remedied by slightly indenting the metal in these two parts, as shown at 18 in Figs. 2 and 6, such indenting being done coincident and simultaneously in both said parts when the device is in locked position, and thus insuring a true registering engagement of the indentations at the desired time, whereby all looseness is taken up and any accidental turning of the said locked member 15, such as might unfasten the handle from its stick, is avoided. It will also be obvious from the above description that the device is capable of considerable modification without material departure from the principles and spirit of the invention, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form and arrangement of the several parts of the improved fastening herein set forth in carrying out my invention in practice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fastening comprising a member having a bore, a rod insertible in said bore and having a lateral projection and a surrounding, rotatory part mounted on the first-named member said surrounding rotatory part having a circumferential channel to transversely engage said projection on the rod.

2. A fastening comprising a member having a bore, a rod insertible in said bore and having a lateral projection, means to hold said rod against turning in said bore and a surrounding rotatory part on the first-named member and having a circumferential channel adapted to transversely engage said projection on the rod.

3. A fastening comprising a member having a bore, a rod insertible in said bore and having a projection and a surrounding rotatory part mounted on the first-named member and having a channel one portion of which is extended longitudinally and another portion of which is extended circumferentially of said part, said channel being adapted to be engaged by the projection when the rod is inserted in the bore and said rotative part is turned.

4. A fastening comprising a member having a bore and provided with a slot, a rod insertible in said bore and having a projection extended through said slot and a part held to turn on the first-named member and having a circumferential channel adapted, when said part is turned, to receive said projection.

5. A fastening comprising a member hav ing a bore, and provided with a slot, a rod insertible in said bore and having a projection traversing. said slot, reciprocal engaging means carried by the rod and the first-named member to hold the rod from turning in said bore and a part held to turn on the first-named member and having a circumferential channel adapted, when said part is turned, to receive said projection.

6. A fastening comprising a member having a bore and provided with a slot, a rod insertible in said bore and having a projection to traverse said slot and a part held to turn on said first-named member and having a channel one arm of which is extended longitudinally and the other arm of which is extended circumferentially of said rotative part, said channel being adapted to be engaged by said projection when the rod is inserted in the bore and the rotative member is turned.

7. In an umbrella, a detachable-handle fastening comprising a tube provided with a plug at its inner end and both rigidly held in a longitudinal bore or socket made in said handle, a transversely shouldered or stepped internal block or plug rigidly fitting within said tube adjacent the said end plug, a rod having a transversely shouldered or stepped inner end freely insertible in said tube in the handle and reciprocally engaging the stepped end of said internal block or plug, a projection on the rod, and apart held to turn on the outer end of said tube and having a circumferential channel adapted, when said part is turned, to receive and engage said projection on therod.

8. A fastening comprising a sleeve having a bearing provided with a slot and having an nular beads at the ends of said bearing, a member having a right-angled guide-channel and arranged to turn on said bearing between said beads and a rod insertible in said sleeve and 45 Signed at Cincinnati, Ohio, this 24th day of September, 1904.

'EDWARD O. KUHN.

Witnesses:

C. F. HoLLENBEoK, JOHN ELIAs JONES. 

